From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T16:28:55+09:00
Subject: Re: The economics of a slow but productive Ruby

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:50:10PM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
> On 9/11/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> >Jacob Fugal wrote:
> >> [1] It's interesting to note however that 67% of that figure is still
> >> in paid salaries, rather than the cost of the hardware itself. If
> >> you've got a super sysadmin who can manage 100 boxes (and you better
> >> be paying them at least 80K if they are that super), the hardware
> >> budget will scale a lot better. There's a lot to be said for getting
> >> your hands on a good sysadmin...
> >
> >Ah, but does SuperSysAdmin have to use a slow scripting language?
> 
> As others have mentioned, the scripts used by sysadmins aren't really
> CPU intensive nor too dependent on the host language speed. So it's a
> moot point. :)

Yeah . . . premature eja^H^H^Hoptimization, evil, et cetera.

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